In 1987, my neighbor's son returned from his first semester at a small private college and actually spouted at the dinner table, the following tripe: "Western civilization is the cause of all the world's problems today." This, from a young man who had been properly taught in a private Christian school where I worked for 18 years. Hell, this young many GRADUATED from that private Christian school. But just one semester of liberal profs undid his core ideology. Now this young man isn't so young -- he's 42 years old. And still spouting the same tripe and refusing to take a job because, in his word, "it violates his principles." Of course, he doesn't at all mind being a professional gigolo and taking handouts from his parents.

this is why we're probably not going to make it.No country hates itself more than ours does, does it? No country expects every person in it, since Day 1, to have been absolutely perfect....there is no nuance, no context, we're just BAD to these people. Think their teachers were conservatives? :-)How can they stand living here?

When children learn about our history, it should be age- appropriate. We learned to love our country for all its goodness, then we were taught about the things we could have done better...but we had that foundation of patriotism.Today? nope.